Jennifer Fleiss

Jenny (MBA ’09) is the co-founder of Rent the Runway, a premier online destination for designer dress and accessory rentals. Jenny and her fellow founder, Jennifer Hyman (MBA ’09), built Rent the Runway to include a revolving roster of over 150 designer brands, 25,000 dresses, 120 employees, and over 2 million members. She stepped down from her executive role at the fashion tech company in early 2017 and now oversees Code Eight, the first portfolio company in Walmart Stores’s newly launched incubator, Store No. 8. As CEO and co-founder of Code Eight, she leads a team focused on developing highly-personalized, one-to-one shopping experiences.

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